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Welcome in Vienna?

Welcome in Vienna?. Reception of Asylum Seekers and Refugees in Austria‘s Capital. Personal 10 years asylum field Lawyer (ai) Research (ICMPD) EQUAL project management (Volkshilfe). Organisational Volkshilfe Österreich DON‘T WAIT – Work and Qualification for Asylum Seekers!

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Welcome in Vienna?

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  1. Welcome in Vienna? Reception of Asylum Seekers and Refugees in Austria‘s Capital

  2. Personal 10 years asylum field Lawyer (ai) Research (ICMPD) EQUAL project management (Volkshilfe) Organisational Volkshilfe Österreich DON‘T WAIT – Work and Qualification for Asylum Seekers! diversity@care - migrants in home care Reporter‘s Data

  3. Presentation Structure • Vienna: Immigration characteristics • Actual Austrian Asylum Policy • Integration of Asylum Seekers • NGO Perspectives on Asylum • Conclusions • Contacts

  4. Vienna: Immigration characteristics

  5. Population in general • Austria: 8 million inhabitants • Vienna: 1,5 million inhabitans

  6. Ethnic Minorities • Austria: 1,5 million who were not Austrian citizens when born (18%) • Vienna: about 30% not Austrian citizens when born

  7. „Integration Contract“ • Federal Law, since 2002, reform 2005 • Compulsory German lessons for immigrants: originally 100 hours, reform 2005 foresees 300 hours + exam compulsory • New Immigration Strategy: Saisonal work + key forces („New Economy“)

  8. Actual Austrian Asylum Policy

  9. Actual Austrian Asylum Policy Plenty new laws ... • Asylum Act 1997 • Asylum Act 2003 (Constitutional Court stated several violations of the constitutional law) • Asylum Act 2005

  10. Asylum Authorities

  11. Asylum Act 2005 • Protection against deportation: weakening during appeals against formal decisions (Third Secure State, Dublin) • Traumaticed refugees are no longer excepted of Dublin procedure • Independent Federal Asylum Review Bord: plus 15 Judges

  12. Immigration Act 2005 • Detention pending deportation: from 6 month up to 10 months and coercive nutrition • Penal law: higher punishment for human smuggling and fake marriages • Familiy reunification: access to labour market already after 1 year (previous: 2-3 years)

  13. Statistics: Asylum Applications

  14. Statistics: Applications Decline Background • End of Yugoslav civil wars • Crisis in Afghanistan/ Iraq urge less people to flight • Main counries of origin: Russia (Tetscheny) and Serbia-Montenegro • Dublin Convention and EURODAC

  15. Integration of Asylum Seekers

  16. Integration of Asylum Seekers • Notion of Integration • Access Labour Market • Accomodation, nutrition and advice • Access education & vocational training

  17. Notion of Integration • Rise to middle class as essential element of integration • One who can‘t perform like middle class is perceived as „foreigner“ August Gächter, Vienna 2005 ZSI, Centre for Social Inovation

  18. Integration needs ... • Rights • Education • Recognition of Capacities & Knowledge • Replacement in bad jobs August Gächter, Vienna 2005 ZSI, Centre for Social Inovation

  19. Access Labour Market • Asylum Seekers: saisonal work or new self employed (see DON‘T WAIT) • Subsidary protected: access afte 1 year • Recognized refugees: access as Austrians • Volkshilfe position: Access to labour market after 6 month + accelerated acceptance procedures for foreign certificates

  20. AccomodationNutrition - Advice • Basic Welfare Support • Convention between Länder (federal territories) and Bund (state) • Covers all asylum seekers (previous: 1/3) • Detention pending deportation is still used very extensively although there would be more human and economic possibilities

  21. Access Education & Vocational Training • Labour market authorities (AMS) excludes asylum seekers • Access to private education market • Costs! – Innovative Support by EQUAL advice structures (DON‘T WAIT, Epima etc.)

  22. Education as commingNGO Policy Perspective • Education & Vocational Training: answer to restricted access to the labour market • Double-Screening: Geneva Convention and national labour market demand • Training Plan: Fit of personal skills and labour marked demands

  23. Conclusions • Focus on vocational training and double screening • In case of return (reduced probability): development aid • In case of stay: win-win-situation

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